The judge ruled that the prosecution concealed evidence from Baldwin’s legal team and dismissed the case with prejudice. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital) Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial in the fatal shooting of "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins took a shocking turn Friday when Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case. Jurors were recessed for the weekend before a special hearing began after the lunch hour, where not only did special prosecutor Kari Morrissey voluntarily take the stand as a witness in a move rarely seen in court, but Sommer then ruled shortly after that the prosecution did in fact conceal evidence from Baldwin's legal team.
"It's very rare for council to be taking the stand as a witness in cases, and so ultimately, that was her undoing," celebrity attorney Christopher C. Melcher, partner at Walzer Melcher & Yoda , exclusively told Fox News Digital. JUDGE DISMISSES ALEC BALDWIN'S INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CASE IN STUNNING VICTORY FOR ACTOR Alec Baldwin's "Rust" trial may be studied for years, according to legal experts.
(Getty Images) "Every prosecution and every police investigation is going to have errors to it, and that's the job of the defense is to point those things out, but there were a comedy of errors here. I mean, from testing the gun to the point of damaging it ..
. emails that were being produced at the last minute, and then we have the ammunition being received under a different case number, which is just really unbelievabl.
